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Mood:
- DisturbingGloomySentimentalCaptivatingBittersweet
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Plot:
- Performer's LifeHuman NatureSelf DiscoveryBoss and EmployeeDown on Your LuckShowbizArtists and ShowbizLifestyle more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignNeo realismMelodramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- ItalyCircus
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Praise:
- Award WinnerClassicCritically AcclaimedEssentialMasterpieceOscar WinnerPrestigious AwardsVenice Festival Winner
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Style:
- On the RoadSurreal
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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La Strada, 1954
Italian
Italy
Profile of La Strada
La Strada can be described as disturbing, bittersweet, and gloomy. The plot revolves around bosses and employees, being down on your luck, and the life of a performer. The main genres are drama, foreign, and romance. In terms of style, La Strada is neo-realist, is surreal, and has a road movie structure. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. La Strada is set, at least in part, at a circus. It is located in Italy. It takes place in the 1950s. Visually, La Strada is black and white. The movie has received attention for being a Venice Festival winner, a classic, and an Oscar winner.
Summary of La Strada
Zampano (Anthony Quinn), a performer in a traveling carnival outside of Rome, purchases the young, poor Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) to be his wife and assistant. Although she shows genuine enthusiasm as an assistant, putting on a fabulous clown act akin to Charlie Chaplin, nobody seems to appreciate her; she quietly endures a life of emotional coldness and cruelty. When she meets "The Fool," Ilmatto (Richard Basehart), a quicksilver trapeze artist who befriends her and offers her warmth, kindness, and an uplifting vision of the world, Gelsomina convinces herself that she and Zampano are in love. She is plunged into despair, however, after Zampano interferes in a jealous rage, precipitating a tragedy that will haunt him forever. Federico Fellini establishes a style and certain key themes in this film that he repeats as trademarks in subsequent films: the beach as a symbol of purity and release; haunting, soft female singing as a symbol of memory; examinations of Catholics and their religion as a cult behavior; and, above all, a chaotic, circus-oriented cyclical pattern that guides his films. The Oscar-winning La Strada is the perfect place from which to begin an exploration of Fellini's expertly crafted movies.
Details
| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy |
| Release date: | 16 July 1956 |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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Cast and Crew
as Gelsomina
as Zampanò
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